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We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.

Alain de Botton

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Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter – pleasurable, intoxicating, even – with human weakness in the face of strength, age and size of the universe.
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Every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.
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Work is most fulfilling when you’re at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.
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It’s as though either you accept [religious] doctrine and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the doctrine and you’re living in some kind of spiritual wasteland under the guidance of CNN and Walmart.
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Must being in love always mean being in pain?
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Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
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You need a long hard day’s work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.
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Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.
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In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer’s words, to turn pain into knowledge.
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Cynics are – beneath it all – only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
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The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.
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It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.
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We are presented with an unpleasant choice between either committing to peculiar concepts about immaterial deities or letting go entirely of a host of consoling, subtle or just charming rituals for which we struggle to find equivalents in secular society.
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The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.
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Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
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